So, I decided to work on a banner based tvshow view today. I'm not sure if it will be part of the first release, but I pretty much decided there will be one eventually.

Note that this is just a first try, this could very well end up differently in the end. The empty spaces at the sides are a bit too large I feel, but that's partly a consequence of the image dimensions. I feel a vertical layout suits the image type better though. Ah well, I'll tinker with it

as for the space, if you move it on the left/right you could use the extra space to show information, like descriptionof the series or last added episode(id on't know if its possible)

I tried something like that earlier but I felt it looked cramped then unless I made the banner a lot smaller. Maybe I'll make the banner just a bit larger, although it's already a bit bigger than the originals that are pulled from thetvdb.

No chance of a beta or svn before the XBMC release? It could be ages away!

Maybe, we'll see. The XBMC milestone is due in 3 hours so there's still hope
At the moment I still have some touching up to do though. Currently I'm trying to finish the weather screen, which is the most boring screen to skin imo

Just yesterday I found a showstopper bug that only reared it's head on a clean XBMC install. It was an easy fix, but I was glad it wasn't out though

In any case, a release isn't far away. I wouldn't have announced it if there were still tons of things to finish.